I want to give a shout out to my good friend. Unearthingem! You can find her blog here: Unearthingem Blog Spot. I couldn’t remember her blog name on my podcast and for that I haz sad. Sorry girlie!

My plan is to embarass myself by posting a picture. Which you will find below. I needed a starting point and a shocker to myself to give me motivation to continue. I got that and then some!  YUCK – here it is..

I had a fantastic day at the gym and in terms of my food. I burnt 500 calories in the AM doing weights and riding the bike. Then I went back at night with a friend and did a Kickboxing Jam class and burnt another 700. No way I could eat that many calories in a day so now I have a surplus of calories. I may need those over the weekend though and Wed. we are going out to dinner with friends.

I am doing this to make myself accountable so that I can focus on the task at hand weight loss. And really – to get over myself. I am so worried about my body and the weight gain I needed to put myself out there to try to bust through.

Heading to sleep – I have to get up in the AM.

Hypogirl

Here is Babee being over protective on her water bowl.

Why’s there a golf ball you ask? It helps them not to eat so fast. They have to push around the golf ball to get at their food which helps keep them from overeating. Wish I can stick a golf ball in my food.  Speaking of food. I have decided to get back on this bandwagon that I seem to kinda fall off of every now and then. I have been doing ok in food recording – but not so much in the types of food I eat. Time to change. Starting tomorrow I will blog almost everyday regarding my workouts and food items. Don’t worry the blogs won’t be boring! I promise!

I have been very busy with glasses for the IAAP CAP exam in early November. I have had a full social calendar and I am done talking to people! LOL! I am looking forward to a “me” filled week with workouts, reading and fake test taking. I am working on having all the laundry washed, dried and put away so that I can focus on those things listed above all week. I hope by Friday I can have a good report.

My new meds seem to be working swimmingly! I have had no problems as a result of dropping them down. I feel better, more awake and more energized! Finally feeling a little normal. This week I am planning on concentrating on taking my vitamins. I have them organized for the week in a weekly planner. Nothing like feeling OLD! I have them separated into 3 daily doses and have reminded myself to have them with a little fat. My hubby is upstairs right now mixing Guacamole for the week. I never liked it before but when my SIL made it one time it was delish! I now have her recipe and plan on making a small batch weekly. I have grilled chicken, mixed veggies for lunch and a Shakeology protein shake for breakfast. It will be my first time trying that too!

Well, I just wanted to touch base and I will be posting a little bit more this week with my weight loss efforts. I plan on kicking my own butt!!

See you soon!

I am feeling a little tired on this wonderful day. When I am an idiot and stay up way too late the previous nights. Yes a plural nights! I start feeling it in the days following. I hurt my knee like a dumbass on Saturday night. It is just getting better so I think by Thursday or Friday I can get back to the gym and get my workout on. Until then I want to sit on the top of the chair like those guys and take a nap. Ignore the wonderful large heaping pile of recycling in the background. I was cleaning this day. :-)

Hope you all have a good day!

Dear people, while at the gym please don’t move someone else’s stuff from the hook outside their shower. It is not very good etiquette.

Dear people, while at the gym please don’t take over someone’s mirror space. If their stuff was there – maybe they had to step away to pee. It is not very good etiquette.

Dear people, while at the gym please don’t sit on someone else clothes that are laid out on the bench. They might wrinkle! It is not very good etiquette.

Yes, this all happened to me this AM at the gym. I am not kidding.

# 1 I actually caught the person and moved my stuff back. After I inquired if she moved my things – she said she was about to place her stuff on the hook because it was “empty”. It was “empty” because you just moved my stuff. *facepalm*

I placed all my stuff at a spot by the mirror, yes in order to save it for me (I won’t lie), Went to the restroom and then checked the scale. When I came back to my spot someone had spread out their things OVER mine and was getting ready. *facepalm*

#3 I was laying out my things to put them one when a women SAT DOWN on my clothes right in front of me! *FACEPALM*

In the words of Job from Arrested Development “COME-ON”.

Hubby drove me to work today so my brother could look at my car. I am glad he did. There is only about $75.00 dollars worth of fixes and then I am off and running again.

BEEP BEEP!

I am finally over all my birthday glutoney and ready to return to the world of sweaty people at the gym. Starting today I will be hitting the gym twice a day til the end of the month. During the weekends I will do an extended workout that won’t require me to get sweaty twice in one day. I am on a mission to be ready for a trip to NY with friends in June. That is if I still intend to go. Not sure on that one yet. Flight prices are looking expensive. But we have a hotel right in Times Square which would make it a ton of fun!

Psyching myself up for my afternoon workout.

TTFN!

On the way home we stopped at Perkins and had a good breakfast. I burnt around 700 calories doing the run! I need to get something to eat. Then we ran home and began to prepare for Thanksgiving. Everyone showed up at 4:30 and we ate and ate! Yummy!

overall one of the best days! I am really sore today though. Back is hurting quite a bit!

So, I have deemed January “me” month and have concentrated on all that is me. I have now gone to the gym for 9 days straight! I am soo proud of myself I can hardly stand it. However, tomorrow is Friday and Sis is coming over for movie night. So, that means I need to get up early in the AM and go to the gym. That will be hard as hell. Iam not gonna sugar coat it – IT IS GOING TO SUCK. But, I have to do it. I will prepare all of my things tonight so when I get up I can dress for the gym and take all my work stuff with me. I can do this!

I was at the gym today and was getting bored with the treadmill so I tried a few different machines. I tried the stair stepper, the treadmill and this skiing type machine. I could imagine myself making an ass out of myself while I feel off this thing headfirst. What a site that would be. The machine itself was kinda cool. I will probably use it again.

Here are my kitties pretending not to like each other. I just love the leg on baby. I feel for Snowy I really do.